By Pamela Fayerman
Corinna Smith is certain she owes her life — and an important body part — to a quick-thinking surgeon who used a new technique he’d recently learned to save her life and preserve her colon.
Smith’s bowels were being ravaged by toxins as a result of a Clostridium difficile colitis infection. She’s believed to be the first in B.C. to undergo the still-experimental procedure pioneered at the University of Pittsburgh.
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